Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first reports came from Cuban exiles in Miami and New York. They were given weight by friendly diplomatic sources in Havana. They added up to a grim warning: Cuban pilots in MIG-21 jetfighters, capable of speeds up to Mach 2.2 and bristling with Soviet infrared homing rockets, were plotting to shoot down President Johnson as he flew to Miami for a Democratic fund-raising dinner on Feb. 27. If they failed in that, the Cubans would try to flash in and ram the President's plane kamikaze-style...
...reported to have a deep social conscience about the problems that dog Brazil. Much of his career was spent in the poverty-stricken, drought-devastated northeast. He was not one of the first plotters of the revolt, and thought long and hard before lending his weight to it. "We have toppled a government of the extreme left," Castello Branco said after his election. "We will not form a government of the extreme right...
...Motors began to work on a fastback Corvair for introduction this month, later decided against the crash approach, and now maintains a monolithic silence. Its Chevrolet Corvette is too expensive to compete with the Mustang, and its rear-engined, lightly powered Monza might be thrown off balance by the weight of a bigger motor out back; this also applies to the experimental Monza GT. Result: G.M.'s competitor for the Mustang, Detroit believes, may be built around the front-engined Chevy II. Ready to take full advantage of his lead, Lee Iacocca at first projected 200,000 sales...
...still has the haggling instinct of her Brooklyn childhood and sometimes puts the weight of her new fame behind it, often insisting on discounts at local stores ("Listen, don't I deserve a discount or something? I mean, after all"), or ordering a secretary to "tell them that if they want my business, they'd better knock $2 off that bill...
Thriller writing, however, is a deceptively demanding craft. Checkpoint's dialogue sometimes creaks drably under a weight of exposition, and an attempt to rekindle ashes of the hero's old romance seems dusty indeed...